Meet Model Suki Waterhouse

Suki Waterhouse is homecoming-queen hot. She’s tall and thin—but not freakishly either—with an ever parted mouth that could use a good washing out, and she seems poised to be Hollywood’s next bro-down girl. The established model and burgeoning actress has scored a smiley but physically fearsome role in The Divergent Series: Insurgent (training, according to Suki, included learning to reckon with an arsenal of faux firearms and occasionally bouncing around on trampolines), as well as one in _Pride and __Prejudice and Zombies _(she auditionedwith a martial-arts sequence).

Speaking from the churning waters of a Los Angeles hot tub (after a "really stretchy" yoga session that "was really fucking great, actually"), Bradley Cooper’s British-born paramour admits that her upcoming catalog of athletic portrayals isn’t without precedent. "I’m quite strong for a girl," she says. "I studied karate growing up—I’m a brown belt—and me and my sister used to beat the crap out of each other." Waterhouse—she of the permanently post-coital-looking blonde hair and heavyweight eyebrows—says she was the undisputed (though accidental) perpetrator of three serious injuries sustained by her good childhood friend: knocked-out front tooth (game of rounders), broken ankle (ice-skating), "snapped" Achilles tendon (bumper cars). "Isn’t that disgusting?" she says, then laughs.

In the years since, Waterhouse has apparently worked to contain some of that kinetic anarchy. When Insurgent wrapped up filming in Atlanta, she returned home to L.A., a city whose topography seems to suit Waterhouse better than her native London’s. "There’s something very uplifting about being able to run uphill in between meetings," she says. "It’s sick."